Chandra Sekhar Dhanekula
Director - Data Platforms | Infrastructure Transformation | IIM-A & BITS Pilani Alumnus | Ex Adobe, Amazon
- Role
- Director of Engineering at Zeta
- Location
- Bengaluru, KA, IN
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Chandra Sekhar Dhanekula
With over 18 years of experience, I contribute to Zeta as Director of Engineering, leading initiatives in database and data engineering operations. My focus lies in leveraging AWS to enhance performance, scalability, and reliability for mission-critical applications, while managing DBA, Data Engineering, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) functions. At Zeta, I drive high-performing teams to deliver data-driven solutions, utilizing a robust skill set that includes RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, Redshift, Airflow, and Kubernetes (EKS). My goal is to ensure operational excellence by prioritizing application resilience and performance, while fostering innovation in cloud-based data systems.
Experience
Director of Engineering
Jul 2025 — Present · Hyderabad, IN
In my role at Zeta, I oversee database, data engineering and SRE operations, ensuring optimal performance and scalability for mission-critical applications. I lead teams in enhancing application resilience on AWS, utilising technologies such as RDS, Aurora, Kubernetes, Debezium, Redshift, Airflow etc. My focus is on delivering innovative data solutions that drive efficiency and reliability across our operations.Key Areas: • RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, Redshift, Keyspace, Yugabyte• Airflow, NiFi, Debezium, Kafka, Spark, Flink, Athena• Kubernetes (EKS)
Education
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
Big Data Engineering, PG Diploma
2020 — 2021
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
B.E & M.Sc, B.E (Hons) Mechanical & M.Sc (Hons) Biological Sciences
2002 — 2007
Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad
AGMP, Business Administration and Management, General
2017 — 2018
Skills
- Shell Scripting
- Sql
- Linux
- Data Warehousing
- Mysql
- Postgresql
- Netezza
- Rman
- Oracle
- Pl/Sql
- Sql Tuning
- Data Architecture
- Dataguard
- Database Design
- Performance Tuning
- Database Administration
- Amazon Web Services (Aws)
- Unix Shell Scripting
- Perl
- Unix
- Solaris
- Databases
- Data Guard
- Oracle Rac
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